Saturday, 13 October 2012

“If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter....

“If
the Earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet above a
field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it.
People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its
little pools and the water flowing between the pools. People would
marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at
the thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the
gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around on the
surface of the ball, and at the creatures in the water. The people
would declare it precious because it was the only one, and they would
protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the greatest
wonder known, and people would come to behold it, to be healed, to gain
knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be. People would
love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know
that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without it. If
the Earth were only a few feet in diameter.

—Joe Miller

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

—Albert Einstein

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

—Henry David Thoreau

“The union of heaven and earth is the origin of the whole of nature.”—I Ching

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”—Aristotle

“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.”

—Saint Bernard of Clarivaux

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”